Per the headline, I say GOOD! The crap in the article -— liars.
The government is afraid that the government will gain access to what the government has been doing.
Sorry, I just don’t do the Times. 😜
They’ll portray it as if Elon is going after working stuff’s refunds and granny’s social security. Not the preferential treatment that leftist organizations have been getting for decades.
So the nyt can still afford to pay THREE people to write ONE story eh?
Maybe the nyt needs a DOGE audit.
I trust Musk’s team more than IRS
China hacks US Treasury and media and elected officials shrug.
Just like every employer if you use direct deposit and just like many of the IRS' 59,000 employees.
I worked on testing the Individual Tax System at the IRS for Y2K problems. We had to use actual tax returns for our testing. We had access to your tax returns. We got in trouble if we deliberately accessed someone whom we knew, but that was all. The fact that I had TS SI/TK clearance at the time made no difference. All one had to do is pass a National Agency Check to gain access. A couple of my co-workers were actually delinquent on their taxes.
The fraud with food stamps, etc. is huge. I’ve seen it firsthand. Since every state has its own data processing system there can be fraud across state lines.
From a pure data analysis perspective, a lot of the fraud can be found by simple looking for SS# dups in different systems paying out the same benefits, comparing the SS# to the federal master death file and also making sure the SS# is real.
As far as the IRS stuff? If anyone wants to apply for any benefit that depends on income every state should be able to ping a system that has the gross income number and the SS#. If the numbers indicate more investigation, then do so.
The fraudsters are raping the American taxpayer and a lot of it is coming in from offshore.
Another thing would be to not provide individual benefits if the person is an illegal or they have assets like vehicles with liens, real property or a business. As it stands now, the agencies that dole out benefits simple do not underwrite the risk, if they did a lot of fraud would be easily found and we could supply proper benefits to actual Americans faster.
You could literally figure out the metrics on a lot of this if you had the necessary data on a laptop.
The only way big reductions in fraud will take place is if one group is allowed access to all the data, if not then we will continue to see trillions more scammed. DOGE is just getting started. The big data guys are in the big data hen house and there is little or nothing that can be done about it.
I can’t wait to start seeing the real numbers that DODGE will be telling us about. We have given very good mathematicians access to the math:)
“beyond what is typical for political appointees”
See how they snuck that in?
Political appointees < bureaucrats.
Oh OK. So the agency employees have a higher status then a mere appointee, who apparently is just some figurehead who’s supposed to appear on TV or go to state dinner parties but otherwise not interfere with the Annointed Ones who actually own the government.
And these are the same people who rant about “protecting democracy”.
So-called journalists
keep saying
“the so-called Department of Government Efficiency”
“It takes direct access to the system to identify and fix it.”
I think there must be a hell of a lot of chills running down a hell of a lot of bad actor spines out there…
This is innuendo.
Per the DOGE executive order, the team member is appointed by the head of the Treasury Department or the IRS and reports to him or her. The DOGE team has both a lawyer and an HR representative as members of the team to look for improprieties.
Elon Musk is at arms-length from the DOGE team. He doesn't see the data and makes no decisions based on the information.
This is what the LAAP-dog media doesn't want the American people to know, so they hid it behind misleading news stories use vague words to obfuscate the truth.
-PJ